In a city powered by industrialised magic, a reality-changing war is about to break out…
Sancia Grado is a thief, and a damn good one. Breaking into a heavily guarded warehouse in the city of Tevanne’s docks is a piece of cake for her. However, Sancia has no idea that the artefact she is supposed to steal holds unimaginable power. It could even spark a revolution in the magical technique known as scriving—a method that changes the properties of ordinary objects using coded inscriptions.
The rival corporations that control this magic have already transformed Tevanne into an immense, ruthless money-making machine. But if they get their hands on the stolen artefact, they will rewrite the world itself to serve their purposes. Now, the corporations are after Sancia. And in the city of Tevanne, there is no force that can stop them.
If Sancia is to survive—and if she is to stop the deadly transformation of the world that is about to unfold—she must gather an unlikely group of allies, master the power of the artefact, and undergo her own transformation, one that will reshape her into something she never even dreamed of.
